Interlooped fabric.



PATENTED oo'r. '27, 1903.

I. MAUSSNER. INTERLOOPED FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 22, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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No. 742,700. Patented October 27, 1903.

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH MAUSSNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO I AMERICAN INTERLACED HORSE COLLAR COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

INTERLOOPED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,700, dated October 27, 1903. Application filed December 22, 1902. Serial No. 136,189. (No model.)

To all whom i may cmw rn: and the fibers of the pad are then interlooped Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH MAUSSNER, with each other by hooks or needles passed a subject of the Emperor of Germany,(having into the layers or mass to engage some of the resided in the United States over one year fibers and draw the same through each other last past and having declared my intention" as loops to completely connect the fibers with of becoming acitizen.thereof,)residing in the each other. After a loop is formed (see Fig. city and county of Philadelphia, State of 2) the needle is turned so as to twist the loop. Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful (See Fig. 3.) [Then the hook or needle is low- Improvements, in Interlooped Fabrics, of eredthroughsaidloopintothebodyandturned :0 which the following is a specification. so that when the needle is again raised it will The object of this invention is an article of take hold of a fresh quantity of fibrous matemanufacture adapted more particularly for rial of the body and raise the same, converting pads, sweat-cloths, riding-housings, sheets, itinto a loop similar to that shown in Fig. 2, mats, or other fabrics for use on animals and when the last-named loop is twisted and the 15 parts of harness. previously-named operations are repeated. Figure 1 represents a perspective view of After the twisted loops are formed in the body a pad of interlooped fabric embodying my inin one direction the body is turned and the vention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation looping continued at a right angle to the of a portion of the pad, on an enlarged scale, loops previously formed. Then the body is 20 including the first step of the mode of manuinverted, and the twisted loops are formed facturing said pad. Figs. 3 and 4 represent in the body in what was previously the botsuccessive steps of operation following that tom, the body thereafter being turned so shown in Fig. 2. that the looping is continued at a right angle Similar letters of reference indicate correto the previous operation, and so the work 25 spending parts in the figures. continues throughout the body. Each hook Referring to the drawings, A designates a in taking hold of a portion of a fiber as a pad which is formed of loops B of fiber, the loop and twisting it and drawing it through saidloopsbeinginterloopedonewith the other, an adjacent loop which is also twisted inand thus connected. sures a complete interlooping of such fibers,

Now by the present improvement there is and as all or nearly all the fibers are treated formed a durable, strong, and porous pad, in this manner they are matted and interthe constituent parts of which are so massed, looped firmly together, thus forming a very stifiened, and interlooped with each other as strong article, which at the same time is suffito be self-sustaining and without danger of ciently porous for the passage of air. 5 coming apart when put in use. By the method described a mat, sheet, or 8 5 In order to produce the desired article, there pad is produced composed of fibers only and is used animal or vegetable fibrous material in which the fibers are so thoroughly intersuch as hair, wool, or the like-either curled, looped that no further covering is required to crinkled, or in a natural state andeither long hold the fibers in place, and at the same time 0 or short, or short fibers mixed'with long fibers the mat, sheet, or pad thus formed can be 0 of either kind. The fibers are interlooped readily cut to give the desired shape to the and massed together to form a homogeneous article. The mat, sheet, or pad produced and article requiring no further binding or coverthe article manufactured therefrom are suming to maintain the shape of the article when ciently porous to readily absorb all moisture 5 used. The fibrous material is first passed or sweat and allow air .to circulate through 5 through the ordinary process of picking or the pores to the part of the animal with which carding to form a loose layer or sheet of the article is in contact. fibrous material, and several such layers are Stitches C may be passed through the pad placed one on the top of the other until the to prevent improper spreading of the latter, 50 desired thickness is obtained, forming abody, said stitches being shown in Fig. 1. 10o

It is evident that from the pads or sheets fabric, a portion of which is in the form ofinproduced any desired article, irrespective of terlocked twisted loops. shape, length, Width, or thickness, may be 3. As an article of manufacture, a fibrous readily manufactured. fabric, the surface of which is in part com- I 5 Having thus described my invention, what posed of interlocked twisted loops which ex- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters tend into the body thereof.

Patent is 1. As an article of manufacture, a fabric i FRIEDRICH MAUSSNER' formed in part of twisted loops of unspun Witnesses: to fabric interlocked with each other. J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

2. As an article of manufacture, a fibrous S. R. CARR. 

